The Guardian

My commune childhood in Austria: I grew up to believe love was bad

Paul-Julien Robert was born into a commune in 1979 and spent the first 12 years of his life there. "Everything in the outside world was described to us as evil. I knew what a nuclear family was, but ...
Artnet

How Should the Art World Handle the Dark Legacy of Viennese Actionist and Convicted Sex Offender Otto Muehl? His Victims Have a Few Ideas

Out of the blue, in late 2020, I received a cold call from Hans Schroeder-Rozelle, who had seen my byline on articles about art from Germany and Austria. He asked whether I knew of the Austrian artist ...
Artforum

Otto Mühl

Otto Mühl (center front) with Action Analytical commune members, Friedrichshof, Austria, 1974. OTTO MÜHL WAS CALLED MANY THINGS IN HIS LIFE, but never a prophet. Yet his first manifesto, “The Blood ...
Box Office Mojo

My Fathers, My Mother and Me

Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family - these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl ...
Moviefone

Slaves in Paradise

A close look at the Austrian far-left Friedrichshof Commune which was set up in 1972 by artist Otto Muehl. It was dissolved in 1990 when Muehl was convicted of the abuse of teenagers who lived in the ...